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by Jare 9y ago
They of course supported gay rights! However some disagreed with the "marriage" word; some disagreed with the need for a law to allow it, rather than removing any existing law or clause that denied it. Those are the two argument
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by Jare 9y ago
I know a number of gay and gay-friendly people who disagree or oppose gay marriage laws to various degrees, for a variety of reasons. So, huh, of course yes I think they can! Important: disagreeing with or opposing a gay marriage law is rea
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by Jare 9y ago
That won't cut it for mobile
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Large cities in Europe have (comparatively) few detached homes and plenty of transit options, yet traffic can still be terrible because the road infrastructure is less huge. I guess we need american roads in european cities, but I'm af
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by Jare 9y ago
That is amazing, I never knew that!
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by Jare 9y ago
This post and his fixes to the Javascript version made me so happy last week. Amazing that something I wrote 24 years ago can still be of interest to anyone.
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by Jare 9y ago
Perforce, PlasticSCM, SVN or git + SVN. That probably covers 95%.
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Yeah they stop when another vehicle is crossing, but they don't seem to sync, so two vehicles sometimes resume driving at the same time and go through each other.
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So the editing worked hehe
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Yeah but the vertical skew came practically for free (just an offset before you start working on each column), which was very important for performance.
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by Jare 9y ago
In Comanche rolling is a skew, not a rotation. You never tilt too much so it's ok.
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by Jare 9y ago
Hehe you're going to laugh at me - I just played the game, exited back to DOS and dumped all RAM to a file. I had already written a relatively popular tool to explore files visually (dump every N bytes to a pixel, with W pixels per lin
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by Jare 9y ago
That was mindblowing at the time. We thought we were being cool with our "Comanche engine using ripped Comanche terrain" on Heartquake https://youtu.be/LLsRBbFOa3k?t=1m39s but Mars was amazing. p.s. yeah we edited
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Don't worry, by the time the borrow checker is done with you, you will understand what you are doing like you've never before. This is a good thing.
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My friends sometimes make events show on my FB either by sharing or just by signing up. But most of the time the event is textually mentioned in a post ("hey Combichrist are coming" or whatever), not via an actual FB event. As som
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Friends. If friends are on Facebook then FB works, but if friends leave then FB may become a pretty expensive board.
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To close the circle, this was recently released as a paid game ($1.99 or $2.99 not sure) on mobile. This game works so well (within its scope) because of its ability to surprise you with the crazy narrative and convoluted mechanisms it brin
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by Jare 9y ago
Indeed! I defended JS for this exact purpose after the 2D canvas became truly ubiquitous. Still a minor amount of boilerplate but you can be drawing stuff in no time. With an integrated editor it would be perfect!
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I suppose to be used in constexpr functions.
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Hehe the guessing game was my fist too, way before I even had a computer. I think what we have lost from the old 8-bit computers and their BASIC, was the ability to instantly have something show on the screen, like the classic Sinclair Spec
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by Jare 9y ago
Estimates of Diablo III + the expansion (a $40 retail at launch) put it around 20m copies. That is a massive success IMHO.
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I imagine the following problems affecting performance outside of the alloc/dealloc themselves: - Heap memory may not be reused as cleanly as stack memory, which means lower cache efficiency. Your suggestion of a pool allocator should
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by Jare 9y ago
There are lots of systems to develop between the low level generic engine and the high level one-off (ish) gameplay code for a specific product. For example, a good brawler combat engine and the tools, pipeline and experience to put it to g
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by Jare 9y ago
Oddly enough, the working conditions at some (many?) of the most successful social/mobile game companies are pretty great.
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I still remember the launch of The Escapist. It was so different with its styling and content, sort of an online version of the Edge magazine. Alas that didn't last long.
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Why is 3 ironic? Living plants and processed food are different things even if both are based on organic material.
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Our use case was not simple, but MongoDB made it simple to implement. We used pretty much every feature of MongoDB. Any other database could have been coerced to do what we needed, of course, but with greatly varying degrees of extra comple
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> Yes they hit these points hard, but only from marketing point of view MongoDB serviced one of my projects for 5 years without a single hitch. It did everything I wanted it to do, it did it well, it did it exactly as advertised (no more
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by Jare 9y ago
That's exactly how I think of it: Typeclass = a class of types, which makes my C++ brain think of templates not inheritance.
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Erikbye is correct, Stardust for Topo Soft on the Sinclar Spectrum and Amstrad CPC 8-bit computers. I attribute a lot of the merit to us being mentally organized, but mostly to our producer Javier Cano (RIP), who had that magic touch for en

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